Understanding Comics & Critique Semiotics
TERMS:
Semiotics:
Semiotics is the study of signs, symbols, and how they are communicated. It's how contexts based on a cultural or local level can change how everything could be interpreted.
According to Charles Pierce, three terms key to understanding semiotics include: the object (the visual sign/symbol), the representamen (what it's trying to communicate), and the interpretant (the cultural convention around the sign).
Denotation:
Denotation is the literal interpretation of a written text or a given image.
Connotation:
Connotation is what's indirectly suggested by an image or text, the context in which it's found, its form, or the style. It's the idea that an image invokes.
Icon:
An icon is any image that's used to represent a person, place, thing, or idea. This term branches off into many subcategories, some representational of fixed concepts and philosophies (symbols, letters, numbers), and others representational of something tangible (pictorial).
Tone:
The feeling, emotion, or atmosphere that a text/image carries with it.
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